This paper attempts to determine the impact a building's physical design and structure has on student/resident perceptions of residence hall staff effectiveness. Results indicate that residents living in "isolated" rooms reacted less favorably to the staff than those in normal traffic areas. (Author/HMV)

This report discusses policies that guide housing for students on college and university campuses in matters that concern relations among status groups based on ethnic, religious, racial, and sexual backgrounds and orientations. The issue of self-segregation has emerged as a crucial one to many colleges as enrollment of minorities has increased.…

Giving students what they want, such as carpeting and kitchens, is bringing them back to campus housing, and innovations such as letting students do the decorating are making it financially possible for many colleges to upgrade student housing. (Author)

Survey results among forty-three juniors indicate general satisfication with living in college apartments, particularly in social areas, although some concern was expressed in developing sense of identity. (CJ)

The purpose of this study was to decide whether students who lived in different academic environments experienced similar or different problems in terms of frequency and severity. A number of significant differences were found for specific problem subareas. (Author)

Photographs and drawings accompany the descriptions of three innovative new college buildings. (MLF)

Several of the POI variables were found to predict the effectiveness of dormitory assistants when using students' ratings as a criterion measure. (DG)

Demands for a lounge for homosexual students at Columbia spotlights a troublesome issue that soon may be surfacing on many other campuses. (Editor)

The importance of the present study is the demonstration that both accurate empathy and warmth responses can be increased significantly after only six hours of training. This means that the responses can be raised rapidly and that the training task becomes one of reinforcing, strengthening, integrating, and generalizing these responses. (Author)

Describes experimental program in which non-faculty professional or business families who are invited to live in student dormitories add new dimensions to students' educational experiences. (WM)